Phenom 9700, AMD's 1st Quad-Core CPU
Direct AMD Comparison - Phenom And Athlon X2
In the following table we compare the most important technical characteristics of the Phenom and the Athlon X2.
The bottom of the Phenom CPU.
Phenom vs. Athlon X2 | ||
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Row 0 - Cell 0 | Phenom | Athlon X2 |
Code Name | Agena | WindsorBrisbaneOrleansLimaManila |
Clock Speed | max. 2.30 GHz | max. 3.20 GHz |
Hypertransport | HTT 1.0HTT 2.0HTT 3.0 | HTT 1.0HTT 2.0 |
L1 Cache | 4x 64+64 kB | 2x 64+64 kB |
L2 Cache | 4x 512 kB | 2x 1 MB2x 512 kB |
L3 Cache | 2 MB | none |
Fabrication Process | 65 nm | 90 nm65 nm |
Transistors | 600 M | 227 M154 M |
DIE Area | 285 mm² | 183 mm²230 mm² |
TDP | 125 W | 125 W89 W65 W62 W45 W35 W |
Cool'n'Quiet | Version 2.0 | Version 1.0 |
Instruction Sets | MMX3DNow!NXX86-64PacificaPresidioSSESSE2SSE3SSE4A | MMX3DNow!NXX86-64PacificaPresidioSSESSE2SSE3 |
The Phenom processor carries the code name Agena and uses the B2 stepping.
CPU-Z correctly recognizes the 2 MB L3 cache
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spearhead good review but you should have had included more result of the overclocked phenom. i just want to know how much juce i you can push out of it for me it is a must it beats the 6400+ otherwise its not worth purchasing in my opinion, it just has to beat its older generation when its running at same clocks.that is why amd has to work on its clock speed and cache. hopefully deneb will be out soon. i would also realy appriciate it to see some review about the phenom 9850 black edition compared against both the 6000+ 6400+ and q6600 and q9300 and maybe some e8xxx model. with overclocked results. pushed it to the maximum. would be realy cool hehe :)Reply -
haifen The SB700 does indeed support at least one PATA port as my motherboard has an IDE connector and I can use it with the ATIIXP PATA driver.Reply